Podcasts and Urban Studies: Notes from the Field; Sounds from the Studio

ABSTRACT

Podcasting is a potentially powerful digital tool for engaging with a broad range of public, policy, student and professional audiences. We offer an urban studies podcast checklist as a conceptual “how to” guide for podcasting the urban. The checklist shows how each stage of the podcast production process can be thought of as an opportunity to ethically intervene into the social and political worlds of cities. We consider why we initiated our podcasts, how we express ourselves as academics, the ethics of urban podcast production, to whom we are disseminating content and the impression we believe we are making.

博客是一种强大的数码工具，可针对一般大众、政策制定者、学生和专业人士。本文提供城市研究博客的制作步骤，作 为在这个领域做博客的入门指导。这个指导向读者说明如何利用制作博客的每一个步骤对城市的社会和政治问题进行道 德干预。我们需要考虑为什么要做博客，如何以学者的身份表达自己，城市研究博客产品的伦理，向什么人传播内容， 以及我们给人们留下的印象。

KEYWORDS:

• Urban studies
• community radio
• podcasting
• radio
• sound
• sonic geographies

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. Excluding live radio audiences.

2. The evolution of podcasting is in many ways a story about technology. Podcasts are enabled by new digital audio file formats and electronic distribution algorithms such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS), but we have not explored this technological dimension of podcasting in this review.

3. We are using an “idea of the soundscape [understood as a] the collection of sounds that emanate from landscapes” (Pijanowski et al. 2011, p. 1).

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Notes on contributors

Dallas Rogers

Dr Dallas Rogers, Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney and radio producer at 2SER and Radio SkidRow community radio stations.

Miles Herbert

Miles Herbert, PhD candidate in Department of Journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and radio producer at 2SER community radio, both at University of Technology Sydney.